# OpenUCT DSpace REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/openuct-dspace-rest/  
**Provider:** University of Cape Town — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-cape-town/  
**Base URL:** https://open.uct.ac.za/server/api  
**Documentation:** https://open.uct.ac.za/

OpenUCT DSpace REST API is one of 5 APIs that [University of Cape Town](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-cape-town/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Institutional Repository, DSpace, REST, HAL, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The OpenUCT repository additionally exposes the DSpace 7 REST API anonymously at open.uct.ac.za/server/api, returning application/hal+json. Probed live on 2026-08-30: the API root reports dspaceName OpenUCT and dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.4"; /server/api/core/communities and /server/api/discover/search/objects both answer 200 without credentials. No OpenAPI is saved for this surface — the REST contract is DSpace's software contract shipped by every DSpace 7 site, not UCT-authored, and crediting UCT for it would repeat exactly the misattribution this profile exists to remove. UCT operates the deployment; the contract belongs upstream.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://open.uct.ac.za/server/api
- **x-upstream-contract** — https://github.com/DSpace/RestContract

## Other University of Cape Town APIs (4)

- [DataFirst Microdata Catalog API (NADA)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/datafirst-nada/)
- [OpenUCT Institutional Repository OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/openuct-oai-pmh/)
- [UCT Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / SAFIRE / eduGAIN)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/identity-provider/)
- [ZivaHub Open Data (Figshare for Institutions tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/zivahub-figshare/)

## Tags

Institutional Repository, DSpace, REST, HAL, Open Access

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